Stephanie Han: Swimming in Hong Kong

Stephanie Han’s debut short story collection, Swimming in Hong Kong, crosses the borders and boundaries of Hong Kong, Korea and the United States.

The ten stories within the book explore the distance and unlikely relations formed between people of different ethnicities, cultures, religions and genders. Join Han as she reads excerpts from her work and explores issues of cross-culturalism and identity.

Swimming in Hong Kong won the 2017 Paterson Short Fiction Prize and was the finalist for the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction and the Spokane Prize.

“Stephanie Han’s Swimming in Hong Kong features precise and subtle meditationson cross-cultural experiences, from Asian Americans in the Midwest and Asia to women negotiating male-dominated worlds. Han gracefully traverses a complicated terrain fraught with the politics of race, sex, class, gender, and culture. Readers will be grateful for having spent time with these quiet and insightful stories.”
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

About the authorStephanie Han’s award-winning debut short story collection Swimming in Hong Kong (Willow Springs/Eastern Washington University Press) won the Paterson Fiction Award, and was the sole finalist for the AWP Grace Paley Prize and the Spokane Prize. Han is the very first English literature PhD from City University of Hong Kong, and received grants and fellowships from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, PEN West, and VONA. She divides her time between Mui Wo, Lantau, Hong Kong and Honolulu, Hawaii, home of her family since 1904.